Since installing Office 2007, Outlook Express has French dictionary

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CJSnet

Since installing Office 2007 (Trial) I have seen many bugs and issues. The
weirdest of which is that Outlook EXPRESS 6 now only has access to a French
Dictionary for spell checks. English is no longer there.

In Office itself, I have English dictionary working fine (after a few
repairs when the Thesaurus became unavailable).

How do I specify which dictionaries other programs like Outlook Express (not
Outlook) can use?
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Steve Howard

Since installing Office 2007 (Trial) I have seen many bugs and issues.
The
weirdest of which is that Outlook EXPRESS 6 now only has access to a
French Dictionary for spell checks. English is no longer there.

In Office itself, I have English dictionary working fine (after a few
repairs when the Thesaurus became unavailable).

How do I specify which dictionaries other programs like Outlook Express
(not Outlook) can use?
Click to expand...


I have the same problem. Would like to know how to fix it!

Steve
 
S

Steve Howard

Since installing Office 2007 (Trial) I have seen many bugs and issues.
The
weirdest of which is that Outlook EXPRESS 6 now only has access to a
French Dictionary for spell checks. English is no longer there.

In Office itself, I have English dictionary working fine (after a few
repairs when the Thesaurus became unavailable).

How do I specify which dictionaries other programs like Outlook Express
(not Outlook) can use?
Click to expand...


I have the same problem. Would like to know how to fix it!

Steve
 
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Patrick Schmid [MVP]

See my RTM issues page (linked below).

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Patrick Schmid [MVP]

See my RTM issues page (linked below).

Patrick Schmid [OneNote MVP]
--------------
http://pschmid.net
***
Office 2007 RTM Issues: http://pschmid.net/blog/2006/11/13/80
Office 2007 Beta 2 Technical Refresh (B2TR):
http://pschmid.net/blog/2006/09/18/43
***
Customize Office 2007: http://pschmid.net/office2007/customize
RibbonCustomizer Add-In: http://pschmid.net/office2007/ribboncustomizer
OneNote 2007: http://pschmid.net/office2007/onenote
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Arun Menon

Hi!

Please do check if the Language in Outlook Express is set to English or not?
In Outlook Express, click on Tools-> Options-> Spelling-> Change Language
Drop-Down to English (US).

If its already English there since Outlook Express uses Word Proofing tools,
try to change the same in Word.
The way that can be done is:

Open Word 2007-> Review Tab-> Click on Set Language and Change it to
English-US.
Hope this helps...
 
A

Arun Menon

Hi!

Please do check if the Language in Outlook Express is set to English or not?
In Outlook Express, click on Tools-> Options-> Spelling-> Change Language
Drop-Down to English (US).

If its already English there since Outlook Express uses Word Proofing tools,
try to change the same in Word.
The way that can be done is:

Open Word 2007-> Review Tab-> Click on Set Language and Change it to
English-US.
Hope this helps...
 
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Steve Howard

Please do check if the Language in Outlook Express is set to English or
not?
In Outlook Express, click on Tools-> Options-> Spelling-> Change Language
Drop-Down to English (US).

If its already English there since Outlook Express uses Word Proofing
tools, try to change the same in Word.
The way that can be done is:

Open Word 2007-> Review Tab-> Click on Set Language and Change it to
English-US.
Click to expand...

That option is removed when this issue appears - it is not possible to
change to the correct dictionary because it is not there.

This is the solution, from Patrick Schmid's site - Thanks Patrick!!!!


--
After installing Office 2007 RTM, you don’t have English as a choice of
language in the spell checker of Outlook Express and potentially other
programs.


a.. Office 2007 is replacing the v.3 English Proofing Tools that shipped
in prior versions of Office with a new version (v.6). There are a number of
changes in this new version, but the one that is causing this problem is
that Outlook Express doesn’t understand the new English Proofing Tools. This
is a problem because Outlook Express has never shipped with its own proofing
tools but has used the ones shipped by Office.
b.. There are a few scenarios in which you won’t run into this problem:
a.. An upgrade from Office 2003 or earlier to Office 2007 RTM if you don’t
manually uninstall the earlier version of Office.
b.. A configuration in which Office 2003 (or earlier) has not been
removed.
For example, I have Office 2003 still on both of my computers, and I
still have English in Outlook Express.
c.. The workaround for this problem is to install the English dictionary
from Office 2003 (or Office XP). There should be no need to install all of
Office just the dictionary. The English Proofing Tools can be found in the
Custom Install tree under ‘Office Shared Features|Proofing Tools|English’.

Steve
 
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Steve Howard

Please do check if the Language in Outlook Express is set to English or
not?
In Outlook Express, click on Tools-> Options-> Spelling-> Change Language
Drop-Down to English (US).

If its already English there since Outlook Express uses Word Proofing
tools, try to change the same in Word.
The way that can be done is:

Open Word 2007-> Review Tab-> Click on Set Language and Change it to
English-US.
Click to expand...

That option is removed when this issue appears - it is not possible to
change to the correct dictionary because it is not there.

This is the solution, from Patrick Schmid's site - Thanks Patrick!!!!


--
After installing Office 2007 RTM, you don’t have English as a choice of
language in the spell checker of Outlook Express and potentially other
programs.


a.. Office 2007 is replacing the v.3 English Proofing Tools that shipped
in prior versions of Office with a new version (v.6). There are a number of
changes in this new version, but the one that is causing this problem is
that Outlook Express doesn’t understand the new English Proofing Tools. This
is a problem because Outlook Express has never shipped with its own proofing
tools but has used the ones shipped by Office.
b.. There are a few scenarios in which you won’t run into this problem:
a.. An upgrade from Office 2003 or earlier to Office 2007 RTM if you don’t
manually uninstall the earlier version of Office.
b.. A configuration in which Office 2003 (or earlier) has not been
removed.
For example, I have Office 2003 still on both of my computers, and I
still have English in Outlook Express.
c.. The workaround for this problem is to install the English dictionary
from Office 2003 (or Office XP). There should be no need to install all of
Office just the dictionary. The English Proofing Tools can be found in the
Custom Install tree under ‘Office Shared Features|Proofing Tools|English’.

Steve
 

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